[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XXV 11/30
I talk.' 'Talk on, Madge,' said Gower, to whom the girl's short-syllabled run of the lips was a mountain rill compared with London park waters. 'You won't let him hurry her off where she'll eat her heart for never seeing him again? She prays to be near him, if she's not to see him.' 'She speaks in that way ?' 'I get it by bits.
I'm with her so, it's as good as if I was inside her. She can't obey when it goes the wrong way of her heart to him.' 'Love and wisdom won't pull together, and they part company for good at the church door,' said Gower.
'This matrimony's a bad business.' Madge hummed a moan of assent.
'And my poor Sally 'll have to marry.
I can't leave my mistress while she wants me, and Sally can't be alone. It seems we take a step and harm's done, though it's the right step we take.' 'It seems to me you've engaged yourself to follow Sally's lead, Madge.' 'Girls' minds turn corners, Mr.Woodseer.' He passed the remark.
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